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If you were forwarded this CATS Updates email, subscribe here. In addition to the Automatically Yours CATS Series Summer-Fall 2007 publication, Baker & Taylor monitors 100’s of children’s and teen series. Below are series that are newly Publisher News available by CATS and can be Automatically Yours: Material Reviews In the Library... 24/7: Science Behind the Scenes: Forensic Science, Franklin Watts, nonfiction, grades Top Ten Titles: 5-7: LIB series ID 0004596672, $26.00; PAP series ID 0004598900, $7.95. Adventures of Riley, Eaglemont Press, fiction, grades PreK-3: HRD series id 0004598942, Books $15.95. Graphic Novels & Manga Avatar, Tokyopop, graphic novel, grades 4-8: PAP series id 0004598439, $7.99. Spanish Beast Quest, Scholastic, fiction, grades 2-5: PAP s eries 0004598215 , $4.99. CD Music Beauty Pop, Viz, graphic novel, grades 4-10: PAP series id 0004599049, $8.99. DVD CatKid, Scholastic, fiction, grades PreK-3: PAP series ID 00004598207, $3.99. Video Games Drama Club, Penguin, fiction, grades 7-10: PAP series id 0004598975, $7.99. Drama High, Dafina, fiction, grades 10-12: PAP series id 00 0 4599072, $9.99. Conference Notes Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, HarperCollins, fiction, grades 3-7: PAP series Interview id 00044599023, $6.99. Kingfisher Knowledge, Larousse Kingfisher , nonfiction, grades 4-7: PAP series ID Feature Titles 0004596557, $8.95.

Pippi Previously offered series that have ceased, or are complete, and will no longer be available Longstocking for automatic shipment: Astrid Lindgren Viking, All Grown Up (8x8), Simon & Schuster, fiction, grades PreK-3: PAP series id 00005726195. September 2007 Blue's Clues Ready-to-Read, Simon & Schuster, fiction, grades PreK-1: PAP series id 000 9870670062768, 5402813. HRD, $25.00 Great Cities of the World, World Almanac, nonfiction, grades 5-9: series id 00005406392. buy now Henry and Mudge, Philomel, fiction, grades 1-2: PAP series id 0001966498. Hispanic-American Biographies, Heinemann/Raintree , nonfiction, grades 5-9: SAL series id 0000546184. Maisy Big, Love Letters, Simon Pulse, fiction, 7-12: PAP series id 0005725676. Maisy Small Milly Molly, National Book Network, fiction, grades PreK-2 PAP series ID 0000544015. Lucy Cousins Totally Spies Chapter Books, Simon & Schuster, fiction, grades 4-8: PAP series ID Candlewick 0005725437. Press, August 2007 Publisher News buy now 9780763634063, HRD, $15.99 • American Girl gets a fresh face this fall with the addition of Julie Albright. This American Girl lives in San Francisco in the 1970’s and faces many of life’s challenges of today’s girls. Before I Die Her parents are recently divorced and she has to adapt to a move to a new neighborhood. Jenny Dowhham Luckily these issues will be authored by the ever-popular Megan McDonald, of Judy Moody David Fickling fame. Julie will make her debut this September with six novels, which are available to order Books, individually as well as in an American Girl hardcover floor display: American Girl Julie 42- September 2007 copy Floor Display (9781593694227, HRD, $543.90) 9780385751582, LIB, $18.99 • The Association of Educational Publishers has recently awarded Picture Window Books and Compass Point Books with distinguished achievement awards. Series such as Way to buy now Be!: Manners and Exploring Science: Life Science were highlighted. Visit www.aepweb.org for full details. Titles include:

Evolution, Me & Manners in the Library ( 9781404831520, SAL, $23.93) Other Freaks of DNA: The Master Molecule of Life (9780756516178, SAL, $26.60) Nature Robin Brande Alfred A. Knopf, • HarperCollins Publishers recently announced that Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired the August 2007 feature film rights to the seven-book fantasy series, Septimus Heap. This bestselling 9780375943492, series marks UK author Angie Sage’s first foray into middle-grade fantasy. LIB, $18.99 buy now

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Toy Boat Picture Book Children's Parenting Teen Randall de Sève Philomel, September 2007 9780399243745, buy now HRD, $16.99

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Lynne Cheney is the author of five A. It’s hard to choose, but Robin Glasser and I did name books for children: the New York Times the book after Abigail Adams, and she is a very appealing bestsellers America: A Patriotic Primer, A figure. Born in days when women weren’t expected to go is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing to school, couldn’t own property, and couldn’t vote, she was American Women, When Washington smart and self-aware enough to know that things should be Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime different and to tell her husband John to “remember the Story for Young Patriots, and most ladies” when he was making laws for our new nation. recently Our Fifty States (9780689867170, SAL, $18.99). She is a Q. Now that you’ve worked with Robin Preiss Glasser senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former on several books, has the collaboration process chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives evolved or changed at all? in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Vice President Richard B. Cheney. A long-time advocate of teaching America’s history A. We work very well together and have since the to children, Mrs. Cheney recently shared her passion for beginning, but our experience on previous books means history and good books with the CATS staff. that we understand each other very well by now. Really, I sometimes think she can read my mind! What a joy to Q. What inspired you to write your first children’s collaborate with a person of such talent. I can’t imagine book? whom else I could have worked with on a project as big and complicated as Our 50 States. A. My grandchildren, first and foremost. When you have little kids in your life, it’s fun to communicate with them in Q. Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America different ways about things important to you, and history is features numerous historical sites, landmarks, and very important to me. natural treasures. Do you have a favorite American

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landmark? Q. From where do you get the ideas for your books? A. There are so many, how can I choose? If absolutely A. I’m not sure. I think they just kind of germinate and then forced I’d say the Statue of Liberty, but then there’s Mount one day blossom. Sometimes the title, or some version of it Rushmore and the Golden Gate Bridge and all the natural comes first. That’s the way it was with America, which I first wonders. Niagara Falls, the Tetons, the list goes on and on. thought of as A is for America. And I began jotting down Aren’t we lucky to live in such an amazing country? ideas for what B, C, and D might be for on scraps of paper. Q. Proceeds from your books help to fund the James Q. Your books make history exciting to children. Were Madison Book Award, given each July to the book that you inspired by any books that you read as a child, or best represents excellence in bringing knowledge and read to your children, or grandchildren? understanding of American history to children in elementary school and to middle-schoolers. Why was A. I love to read Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown it important to you to help establish such an award? and Clement Hurd to my little grandchildren and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein to all of them. These books inspire me A. I think of it as multiplying my own efforts to help kids because of the way they not only reach children, but touch have a greater appreciation of the story of America. There adults as well. are some really good books written every year, and what I can do is help draw attention to them. Q. What message do you hope your young readers take with them from your books? Q. Will you share with us something about your next book for children? A. I hope they understand how amazing this country is, how varied, how beautiful, how free. We live on what Winston A. I’m working on a book about the Constitution, easily Churchill once called the “sunny uplands” of history, and I one of the most important documents ever written. It’s a hope my books help children begin to understand that. remarkable story to be able to tell—how our young country was in serious trouble, until the Framers, meeting in Q. A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Philadelphia in 1787, created a framework that allowed us Women was a New York Times bestseller and received to become a great and mighty nation. the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award. The book profiles several courageous and memorable American back women, but do you find one woman particularly inspiring?

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8 Blue's Clues:Blue's Room Shape Detect Blues Clues Entertainment 1415728003 DVD $16.99 Paramount Home 9 Wonder Pets:Save The Wonder Pets Wonder Pets 1415730598 DVD $16.99 Entertainment Paramount Home 10 Charlotte's Web Roberts, Julia 1415728615 DVD $29.99 Entertainment back --Video Games 1 Mario Party 8 Nintendo Nintendo Wii 9786310785523 Game $49.99 2 Harry Potter And The Order Of the Phoenix EA Games Xbox 360 9786311078860 Game $39.99 3 Harry Potter And The Order Of the Phoenix EA Games Nintendo Wii 9786311078846 Game $49.99 4 Big Brain Academy Nintendo Nintendo Wii 9786311078785 Game $49.99 5 Harry Potter And The Order Of the Phoenix EA Games Xbox 360 9786311078891 Game $59.99 6 Tamagotchi Party On NAMC Nintendo Wii 9786311078747 Game $39.99 7 Forza 2 Microsoft Xbox 360 9786310503721 Game $59.99 8 Surf's Up UBI Software Nintendo Wii 9786311023563 Game $49.99 9 Bionicle Heroes EIDO Nintendo Wii 9786310990842 Game $49.99 10 Ratatouille THQ Nintendo Wii 9786310935669 Game $49.99 back

Feature Titles Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Viking, September 2007 9870670062768, HRD, $25.00

In 1950, Viking published the original English version of Pippi Longstocking, the story of an irrepressible red- haired, freckle-faced girl who lived with a monkey and a horse. Now this best-selling book has been given a sparkling new translation by an award-winning translator and delightful full-color illustrations by the critically acclaimed creator of the Charlie & Lola series in a large format book that is sure to become the definitive edition of a favorite classic. back

Maisy Big, Maisy Small Lucy Cousins Candlewick Press, August 2007 9780763634063, HRD, $15.99

You've never seen Maisy like this! She's fast, she's slow, she's messy, she's clean -- in this kaleidoscopic concept book, the beloved mouse even changes her look from familiar to new as she demonstrates thick and think, tall and short, young and old, wiggly and straight. The art is so vibrant that it leaps off the page, this fresh approach to concepts makes learning opposites irresistible for both loyal Maisy fans and new friends alike. back

Before I Die Jenny Dowhham David Fickling Books, September 2007 9780385751582, LIB, $18.99

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

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Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature Robin Brande Alfred A. Knopf, August 2007 9780375943492, LIB, $18.99

Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include “Intelligent Design” in lessons on evolution.

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Toy Boat Randall de Sève, illustrated by Loren Long Philomel, September 2007 9780399243745, HRD, $16.99

When the wind blows a little boy's beloved toy boat out into the wide lake, the little boat, missing his friend, must brave fierce waves, a surly ferry, a sassy schooner, and a growling speed boat in order to find his way home. back

Material Reviews

Material Review – Picture Book Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe Sylvan Dell, April 2007 9780977742356, Hardcover , $15.95 9780977742370, Paperback, $8.95

Organized as a scrapbook for the author's daughter, it documents a summer of observing turtles on an East Coast beach. Starting in May, the loggerhead turtles return to the beach to lay their eggs about 20 inches under the sandy beach. Approximately two months pass as the turtles incubate, then start to hatch and submerge in a “boil.” The sand boils over with baby turtles who follow the light of the moon towards the ocean. The book concludes with a full-circle idea that the turtles will return in 30 years to the same beach to lay their own eggs and the author will be there with her daughter to watch them return. Filled throughout with images of marine life on the beach, and quick visit of the Sea Turtle Hospital, the book is a good introduction to the early life of a loggerhead sea turtle. A glossary, loggerhead facts, and ideas of how to make a scrapbook, enhance the book for older readers. This title is recommended for children’s collections, especially those with turtle enthusiasts. JC Peacock, Collection Development Librarian. back

Material Review – Children’s Percy the Park Keeper: A Classic Treasury by Nick Butterworth HarperCollins, August 2007 9780007211371, Hardcover, $18.99

Children will love this endearing collection of Percy the Park Keeper stories. Percy is kept very busy by his park keeping duties, but still has time to spend with his animal friends. Read about what happens when a chilly fox needs warming up, or when a dirty badger is offered a bath. Large font and clean, attractive, soft illustrations will appeal to new readers. These simple stories are also good for sharing and reading aloud programs. This book is highly recommended for all children’s collections. Reda Reil, Collection Development Librarian. back

Material Review – Parenting I’m a Mom! Now What? by Su Laurent, MD Paw Prints, August 2007 9781435209909, Prebind, $28.95 Dorling Kindersley, July 2007 9780756628512 , Paperback, $19.95

From birth to 24 months, this highly detailed account of early parenthood is a must have for new parents. Regardless of the title, emphasizing that this is for moms, this book highlights parenting concerns and must- know topics. Topics include: physical and mental development, health concerns as detailed as debating vaccinations and allergies. Organized chronologically by months, and with an excellent index, it is easy to find just about any topic of concern for a parent. Apgar scores, diet and nutrition, developmental playing, walking, talking, illness, etc. are explained in enough detail to feel comfortable with the subject at hand. This book would be excellent for any parent, new and experienced, mom or dad, is essential to any parenting collection. Jill Faherty, Director of CATS. back

Material Review – Teen Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst Razorbill, June 2007 9781595141569, hardcover, $15.99, 260 pages

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There have been many fairy tale related books lately, but don’t overlook this one. The personalities of the characters are fresh and fun and the story is original. The characters have escaped from the Wild and are enjoying their lives beyond their stories: Zel (Rapunzel) runs a hair salon, Cindy (Cinderella) dresses in bright clothes and speeds around in an orange car, the wicked witch runs the Wishing Well Motel, and Snow’s seven are grumpy, sexist old men. However, the Wild is again growing strong and the characters may be doomed to forget their lives of free will and be trapped reenacting their stories forever. There are references to familiar old tales as well as some more obscure ones. The story is fast moving and fun as the characters pull together to defeat the Wild while trying not to get trapped in any of its stories. Alyson Del Vecchio, Sr. Research Analyst, Continuations back

Material Review – Music Little Mo'McCoury Little Mo'McCoury CD MCCY 0007 ISBN: 9786311395219, $15.98 srp

The latest offering from McCoury Music may be a brand new release, but Little Mo' McCoury, the engaging children's bluegrass album from Ronnie McCoury and the Del McCoury Band, has been a long time coming. "It's something I've been wanting to do for a long time," says Ronnie, "probably since my first child was born, and he's nine now!" Yet whether they're bluegrass fans or simply parents in search of a fresh, energetic collection of songs for their children, listeners and, more importantly, their kids are sure to agree that it was worth the wait. From timeless favorites like "This Old Man" and "I've Been Working On The Railroad" to bluegrass classics like "Jimmy Brown The Newsboy" and "Going Ape Over You" and contemporary songs like Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me" (from Toy Story) and Bob Dylan's "Man Gave Names To All The Animals," Little Mo' McCoury is an introduction to bluegrass that reaches out to new generations of children without ever talking down to them. back

Material Review – Video Shredderman Rules! DVD CO 21197 ISBN: 9781424869961, $24.94 srp

Life's not easy when you're a nerd, especially when bullies rule the local Junior High school. Based on the graphic novel Shredderman: Secret Identity, Shredderman Rules is a Nickelodeon movie about Nolan Byrd, a brainy Junior High school student who is incessantly picked on by the slow-witted school bully Bubba Bixby. Assigned a project of creating a multi-media report on an issue important to him by his teacher Mr. Green, Nolan seeks revenge against Bixby by secretly filming the bully in action and launching a website exposing his despicable behavior. The repercussions of Nolan's actions quickly grow as Bixby's anger boils over and Principal Voss gets involved and implicates Mr. Green in the scheme. In the end, Nolan and his classmates learn an important lesson about taking risks and standing up for what they believe in. back

Material Review – Essential Alter This!: Radical Ideas for Transforming Books Into Art by Alena Hennessy Lark Books, July 2007 9781579909482 , Hardcover, $14.95

Clever, attractive, and innovative design ideas fill this book, making it perfect for children and teen craft collections and programs. Provided are 39 suggestions and samples of transformed books that have become unique masterpieces at the hands of young artists. “Think of the book as a blank canvas. To alter it you can draw, paint, write, or paste something in it. Or go to the extremes: Cut holes, weave paper through it….If you can imagine it, you can do it” notes the author. “Circle poems” for example shows highlighted words already printed in the book, manipulating them to read as a poem of the artist’s own creation, then covering the rest of the book’s page with a painting or collage. What a great way to reuse those books that have been weeded from your collection! The projects could be used for young children to teen art projects, or older children, grades 5+, could use the book on their own. This is a great way to promote the imagination and artist in everyone. Highly recommended! Jill Faherty, Director of CATS. back

Material Review – Spoken Word Saint Iggy by K.L. Going, narrated by Stephen Hoye Listening Library, October 2006 9780739336731, unabridged, 5 CDs, 4:00, $35.00

Born addicted to drugs and raised in the projects, Iggy Corso has never had a kind life. Iggy is kicked out of high school, but wants to make something of his life. To do this, he knows he needs to be in school and to get

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an education. He doesn’t want to be like his drug addicted parents, or many of the people he sees around him. Iggy seeks the help and guidance of his philosophizing, yet naïve, friend Mo who gets himself in trouble with the infamous neighborhood drug dealer Freddy. Together Mo and Iggy go to Mo’s mom for money, thinking it is the solution to all their problems. Mo’s mom, her lifestyle, and demeanor provide a contrast to any life that Iggy has ever known. He sees that his life could have a brighter future with her help, he becomes more confident and focused on what is right and wrong. Though the people around him don’t evolve and are full of contradictions, Iggy finds an inner-spiritual guidance in himself after many unique encounters with good, evil, stupidity, love, hate, neglect and respect. The content and abrupt ending are difficult to swallow. Narrator Hoye’s Christopher Walken accent make for an interesting presentation. This audio is recommended for all teen, especially urban-set, libraries. Reda Reil, Collection Development Librarian. back

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